11/20/2025
Bigfoot Found a Ranger Tied to a Tree, What Happened Next Will Shock You – Sasquatch Story
I never believed in Bigfoot. Not once. Not after all the campfire stories, not after hearing strange calls echoing through the woods, not after a lifetime working in forests where legends tend to outnumber people. But all of that changed the day one found me—bound to a tree, bleeding, terrified, and utterly helpless—deep in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.
What happened next shouldn’t be possible. It shouldn’t exist outside of myths, or whispered tales told by hunters who’ve spent too many nights alone in the dark. And yet, it happened. I’m alive because of it.
My name is Richard Dalton. In 1993, I was a 42-year-old ranger with the U.S. Forest Service, a man who thought he’d seen everything wilderness could throw at him—storms, fires, predators, poachers, even the occasional fool who got himself lost in the backcountry. I’d spent sixteen years patrolling Washington State’s most unforgiving terrain. Nothing surprised me anymore.
Or so I thought.
That summer was brutal—dry, blistering, the kind of heat that makes the forest feel like a ticking bomb. While the Midwest drowned under historic floods, we in the Pacific Northwest were dealing with the opposite: drought, fire danger, and nerves stretched thin. Every day felt like walking through a powder keg.
On the morning of August 19th, I set out on what should’ve been a routine patrol—alone, as usual. My truck was stocked with gear, my radio crackled with country music, and I was thinking more about paperwork than danger.
I had no idea I was driving toward the most terrifying—and extraordinary—encounter of my life.
An encounter that would make me question everything I thought I knew about the wild… and about the creatures who inhabit it...
